Performing Arts

Actor Zero Mostel, center, who portrays Tevye in the musical "Fiddler on the Roof," poses backstage with cast members after the play's opening performance at the Imperial Theatre in New York on Sept. 22, 1964. Maria Karnilova, who plays Tevye's wife, Golde, is at far left. Playing Tevye's daughters, from left, are, Tanya Everett, as Chava; Julia Migenes, as Hodel; and Joanna Merlin, as Tzeitel. AP hide caption

Protesters hand out flyers pushing for benefits for hair and makeup workers at The Atlanta Opera. Matthew Pearson hide caption

Buster Keaton in a promotional still for 'The Cameraman', which came out in 1928. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption

Tenor Curtis Bannister sings the role of Stan in Beethoven's Fidelio, in a dress rehearsal. Russ Rowland/Courtesy of Heartbeat Opera hide caption

Tariq Trotter portrays a scientist who has invented a machine that can turn Black people white in the off-Broadway musical Black No More. Monique Carboni/The New Group hide caption

Method actor Robert De Niro won the Oscar in 1981 for his performance as a retired boxer in Raging Bull. AP hide caption

Illustrator Peter Emmerich says he drew on both research and his own personal memories to draw people like Stephen Sondheim. "I put him in the book wearing what he was wearing when I met him," says Emmerich. "Because, like, I will never forget him in that red sweater." Courtesy of Penguin Random House hide caption

Mrs. Doubtfire is one of the Broadway shows that reopened but then had to shut down for a while after cases of COVID spread among cast and crew. Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images hide caption

Terry Teachout in 2012. Charles Giuliano hide caption